Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It can create doubt, uncertainty, lack of focus, and even resentment. Failure To Resolve Conflict In A Timely Fashion – Debate is a healthy and necessary component of everyday business. ” It can manifest itself as a plain old fashion lack of feeling appreciated. Timelines stretch while costs skyrocket.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 30, 2013

When it comes to courageous leadership, the image that often comes to mind is of a leader who is not just assertive in the face of uncertainty, but who also exudes a sense of fearlessness regarding the situation before them. Unfortunately, when it comes to courage in leadership, we often have a wrong impression of what that means.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 6, 2012

Life lessons sometimes hit me in a delayed fashion. When confronted with uncertainty or unfamiliarity – when a situation or surrounding looks different from what they expect to see – people freeze. They do everything in their power to reduce uncertainty by communicating more often, more thoroughly, and more personally.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Learn to serve as your organization’s rudder instead of its anchor Neurological studies have found that our brain processes information every five seconds in a binary fashion where it labels the new data as either a reward or a threat.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The conversation around Gen Z in the workplace receives a lot of negative attention whether we’re in discussion about their work fashion or their work ethic. The Gen Z population is no different and the digital natives have been more exposed to global conflicts than any that came before them.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

At the risk of sounding a bit of a little old-fashioned, there is nothing wrong, and everything right, with bringing more kindness into our lives (that includes our working lives). It helps them weather the storms of uncertainty. I See You – Squawk Point. Trust is the lubrication that allows organisations to tackle tough problems.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And with the current uncertainties over whether the world is about to enter a double-dip recession, it’s unlikely that we’ll see some form of an employee exodus from these organizations where poor working environments continue to persist, if not worsen over time.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 12, 2015

Discovering what is not working and why allows you to address challenges in a more timely fashion. Change is never easy, but as a manager, leader, or as an individual contributor, you can have a positive impact in the face of the uncertainty that often comes with change. Learn from your people.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I invited my friend Peter Cappelli, a Wharton professor, author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, and a recognized world authority on human capital, to discuss his new approach to talent management. The problem for talent management is to deal with and manage that uncertainty. So, what do we do instead?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2012

While finding information in a timely fashion is a constant challenge, the uncertainty surrounding change in future regulations and the complexity of managing regulations across different regions consistently haunts industrial organizations.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Sometimes people engage in plain old-fashioned bad behavior. Unfortunately, the uncertainty of frequent restructuring actually makes problems worse. Arguments, rifts and mean-spirited rivalries may follow. And in the worst cases, dislike and rivalry can develop into a full-blown office war. Pouting and yelling. Taking undue credit.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 21, 2013

Of course, in light of the prevailing economic uncertainties seen in most countries, it’s not surprising that salary would rank so high, which also means that we need to recognize that we’re on borrowed time when it comes to using salary to keep our employees satisfied.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 27, 2013

Unfortunately, as social media sites mature, we’re also beginning to see more meltdowns, feuds and fights erupting between public individuals, people whose actions often inspire others about what’s acceptable or fashionable to do while in the public realm.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The research was conducted during a time not dissimilar to present day, a time of economic uncertainty. One of the major principles highlighted is that successful individuals perform planning regularly in an organized fashion. The original copyright of the book is 1937.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

The danger, of course, is that while we are using uncertainty as an excuse to put off making strategic choices, the competition may be doing something else entirely. making a where-to-play choice) and competing there in some fashion (i.e. What criteria will we use to decide the requisite level of certainty has been reached?

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. We define risk intelligence as the organizational ability to think holistically about risk and uncertainty, speak a common language and effectively use forward?looking But it’s not sufficient.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. These rubber pieces are produced from a mold, so once the company has fashioned the mold (which can be quite expensive) the costs for making each part for sale is quite low.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. These rubber pieces are produced from a mold, so once the company has fashioned the mold (which can be quite expensive) the costs for making each part for sale is quite low.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. These rubber pieces are produced from a mold, so once the company has fashioned the mold (which can be quite expensive) the costs for making each part for sale is quite low.

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Reiter Thinks

JUNE 13, 2011

I’ve blogged about this very issue before and yet I’m still unable to collect the data in a fashion that tells me what is working. So I am paddling in the lake of marketing uncertainty only really knowing that I’m exerting effort but the tide seems to be sloshing me all around without a discernable course. I like that.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

​ Anna Wintour - Fashion Mogul, Journalist When it comes to fashion and publishing, there are few more successful or well known than Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of "Vogue" since 1988. Be Confident and Real People don't want to follow leaders who show uncertainty and anxiety.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Windows of entrepreneurial opportunity can open unexpectedly and briefly, typically under conditions of risk and uncertainty. There is no time to resolve ambiguity and uncertainty. In this fashion, the entrepreneurs used simple criteria to rapidly embrace or reject opportunities. In fact, it may not be possible to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Show me a person who sees uncertainty as opportunity, and I’ll show you a person who has mastered the new world of work. That is, stories of creative struggle, bitter loneliness, and chronic uncertainty. Underneath their pursuits of independence and portability lies a shared aspiration to fashion a masterful self.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us. " I was on a plane a week later to attend my grandmother's funeral, and my wife and I were 2 of about 20 on that flight.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Timbuk2 manufactures in the US because it produces custom-made bags, orderable through its handy web site , and customers ordering custom bags cannot wait for weeks for a bag to come from China by boat, while shipping by air is expensive and there would still be some uncertainty due to customs clearance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Old-fashioned benefits like health insurance, family leave, and flex time ranked only 15 percent when considering most valued HR offerings. Traditional onsite benefits, such as cafeterias, childcare, massages, and volunteer opportunities ranked a mere 5 percent when determining what benefits provide stability during economic uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

He had a brief window of reprieve, and during this time of deep uncertainty, Hatkoff hit on the idea of the bank guaranteeing loans but securing actual funding for those loans from other parties, to alleviate the pain point created by the bank’s high interest obligations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. Innovators know they need to manage uncertainty differently than they manage the execution-oriented part of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In exchange, a fitness leader can offer a sense certainty, justice, and camaraderie in a time where employees are otherwise plagued by uncertainty, injustice, and isolation. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

They do so by operating three learning loops in a rapid, automated fashion: adapting to changing customer needs, modulating the exploration of new needs, and shaping the emergence of new needs. And we tried to derive a set of principles and actions which any organization could use to create a self-tuning enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Studies indicate that when we’re low on energy, we tend to misread those around us , typically in a more negative fashion. And when it comes to navigating uncertainty and negotiating risk, the research is clear: Decision quality plummets when we’re tired. Happy faces appear more neutral. So is impaired judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility. Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors, stressors, and chaos. If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Trust is essential to reducing perceived risk, which is a combination of uncertainty and the seriousness of the potential outcome involved. Introducing innovations in a stepwise fashion can lead to more gradual social learning, which in turn builds trust. Perceived risk in the context of AI stems from giving up control to a machine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In other words, try some good old-fashioned kindness. Obviously, the exact nature of help needed depends on what’s causing the stress, but I will address three common stressors: too much to do; uncertainty about how to succeed; and interpersonal conflict. Uncertainty about how to succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Customized online videos help make their Sorel line of winter footwear relevant to young, fashion-forward women. There are uncertainties and risks for sure. The Montrail shoe line is marketed in terms of applications with a web-based visual that allowed customers to showcase different shoe types based on the intended use.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Is the innovation effort only inducing fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the market, or is the company really walking the talk? Without borrowing key resources from the core business in a sustained and methodical fashion, innovation execution is likely to fail. Or is this just another aspirational flavor of the month?

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